Van Eaton, Henry S – Van Norden, Warner
Van Eaton, Henry S
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 14, 1826, in Hamilton county, Ohio. In 1857 he was elected district attorney, and in 1859 was elected a representative in the Mississippi state legislature. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war. In 1880 he was appointed chancellor of the tenth district of Mississippi, and served on the bench until elected a representative from Mississippi to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Van Gaasbeck, Peter
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1793 to 1795.
Van Horn, Burt
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 28, 1823, in Newfane, N. Y. He was elected to the New York state legislature in 1858, and the two succeeding years.
He was a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress, and in 1864 was elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He was re-elected to the fortieth congress as a republican.
Van Horn, George
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1850, in Otsego county, N. Y. In 1881 he was elected clerk of the county of Otsego, and reelected in 1884; and was twice elected supervisor of the town of Otsego, and several times a member and chairman of the democratic county committee. He was elected to the fiftysecond congress as a democrat. He has attained prominence as a lawyer of Cooperstown, N. Y., and has contributed valuable articles to secular and law publications.
Van Horn, Robert Thompson
soldier, journalist, legislator, was born May 19, 1824, in East Mahoning, Pa. After receiving a thorough education he became a practical printer. He attended the ordinary schools of that time; at fifteen years of age he entered the office of the Indiana (Pa.) Register, serving four years as an apprentice to the printing business.
He moved to Ohio in 1844, and to his present place of residence in Missouri in 1855, where he established the Kansas City Journal, of which he is still editor.
He was elected mayor of that city in 1861 and again in 1865. He served during the war, first as major of Van Horn's battalion, United States reserve corps, taking part in the battle and siege of Lexington, under Colonel Mulligan, in September, 1861; then as lieutenant-colonel of the twenty-fifth Missouri infantry, commanding the regiment in the battle of Shiloh, and serving in the army of the Tennessee and in the campaigns of southeast Missouri and Arkansas. While in the field he was elected to the Missouri senate in 1862, and to congress in 1864, also in 1866, 1868 and 1880, serving in the thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first and forty-seventh congresses. He was collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of Missouri from September, 1875, to 1881. He has been a delegate to the republican national conventions of 1864, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1880 and 1884, being twice a member of the national republican committee, and chairman of the republican state committee of Missouri; and was one of the 306 voting for General Grant in the convention of 1880. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress.
Van Horne, Archibald
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1807 to 1811.
Van Horne, Espy
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1829. He died June 25, 1829, in Williamsport, Pa.
Van Horne, Isaac
soldier, congressman. He was a captain in the revoluuonary war; was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1805; and was then appointed receiver of public moneys in Zanesville, Ohio.
Van Horne, Thomas B
clergyman, author, was born in 18-. He is a clergyman, chaplain in the federal army during the civil war, and the author of History of the Army of the Cumberland; and Life of Major-General Thomas.
Van Horne, William C
railroad president, was born in February, 1843, in Will county, Ill. He became general manager of the Canadian Pacific railroad, of which the section through the wheat districts of Manitoba had just been completed. He was elected vice-president of the company in 1884, and in 1888 became its president.
Van Houten, George H
soldier, journalist, horticulturist, lecturer, state legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1847, in Missouri, and since 1855 has resided in Taylor county. He served nearly two years in the war as a member of the fourth regiment Missouri caval- He has been a successful nurseryman and journalist; is secretary of the Iowa State Horticultural society, and ry. also of the Southwestern Iowa society. He has lectured on travels and for fraternal societies. He served with distinction as a member of the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh general assemblies of the Iowa state legislature.
Van Houton, Isaac B
congressman, He was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1835.
Van Lennep, Henry John
was born March 8, 1815, in Asia Minor. He was a congregational missionary in Asia Minor in 1839-69, and the author of Ten Days Among Greek Brigands; Bible Lands; Travels in Little Known Parts of Asia Minor; and The Oriental Album.
He died Jan. 11, 1889, in Barrington, Mass.
Van Metre, John J
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1843 to 1845.
Vann, Irving Goodwin
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 3, 1842, in Ulysses, N. Y. In 1863 he received his education at the Trumansburg academy, the Ithaca academy, graduated from Yale college in 1863, and from the Albany Law school two years later. In 1879 he served with distinction as mayor of Syracuse; and during 1882-96 was justice of the supreme court. In 1896 he was appointed by the governor as judge of the court of appeals for the state of New York; and in November of the same year was elected to that high office for a full term of fourteen years by a majority of 243,180.
Van Ness, Cornelius Peter
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Jan. 26, 1782, in Kinderhook, N. Y.
He was a representative in the legislature from 1818 to 1821, and was a commissioner to settle the national boundaries under the treaty of Ghent, from 1817 to 1821.
He was chief justice of the state from 1821 to 1823, and was governor from 1823 to 1826. He was minister to Spain from 1829 to 1839, and was collector of the port of New York in 1844 and 1845. He died Dec. 15, 1852, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Van Ness, John Peter
lawyer, banker, congressman, was born in 1770 in Ghent, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from 1801 to 1803. Having taken up his residence in Washington City he became the first president of the Bank of the Metropolis in 1814, and was also elected mayor of Washington. He died March 7, 1847, in Washington, D. C.
Van Ness, Marcia Burns
philanthropist, was born in 1782 in Washington, D. C. On her death the people at Washington held a large meeting, at which prominent men eulogized her good deeds.
She was an abolitionist known the world over; and contributed stirring articles on that subject to the leading newspapers and magazines of the United states, which materially aided the cause.
She died in September, 1832, in Washington, D. C.
Van Ness, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born in 1859 in Maryland. He is a unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the Second church, and the author of The Coming Religion; The Ideal Commonwealth; and My Visit to Count Tolstoi.
Van Ness, William Peter
lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1778 in Ghent, N. Y. He was a jurist of New York city, and the author of Examination of Charges Against Aaron Burr; Laws of New York; and Concise Narrative of Jackson's First Invasion of Florida. He died Sept. 16, 1826, in New York city.
Van Nest, Abraham Rynier
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 1, 1823, in New York city. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman in charge of American chapels abroad, and pastor in Philadelphia in 1878-86. He was the author of Signs of the Times; and Life of G. Bethune. died June 2, 1892, in New York city.
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Van Norden, Charles
clergyman, author, was born in 1843 in Connecticut.
He is a congregational clergyman at Suffield, Connecticut, and the author of The Outermost Rim and Beyond; and The Psychic Factor.
Van Norden, Warner
president of the National Bank of North America, was born July 2, 1841, in New York. In 1891 he was elected president of the National Bank of North America, one of the oldest financial institutions in the country, and has since remained at its head.
He is president of the South Yuba Water company, president of the Land and River Improvement company; vice-president of the Holland Trust company, and a director of the Home Insurance company, American Savings bank, the Northern Trust company, of Superior, Wis., and several other organizations.